BOOKSHELF TOUR 2014

I’ve had lots of requests from readers to ‘see my bookshelves’ and since I just set up these new shelves, I decided to post a complete picture of all of them (see below) along with a list of every book on them sorted by Bookshelf & Row… so it should be super easy for you guys to find any book you’re curious about!

My bookshelf is actually almost more of a “recommendations wall”. For the most part, I only buy books that I have already read and loved. There are just SO many books out there that I like having the ones I display on my wall be mostly books that have a special meaning to me in some way.

I personally read eBooks, and then buy my favourites in paperback.

Anything I have on this shelf that I haven’t read, I likely bought right before I started blogging. For me, it’s not just about having books, it’s about having a selection of books I genuinely care about. I’ve been collecting these for about 3 years now and my book pile started out really small and just slowly grew from there as I began buying the books I fell in love with along the way.

Even though I don’t read quite as much paranormal romance any more, I do love the genre and I have a fair number of those from before I started blogging. I basically went from reading Twilight (ages ago) to desperately wanting something similar (romance, strong couples, etc) so my searches led me to BDB and Night Huntress and then I just read about every major PNR series I could get my hands on. But THEN I discovered Fifty, Crossfire, Thoughtless, Beautiful Disaster, Slammed, and a lot of the other original indie romance hits and I veered off into contemporary romance and began my blog (back in 2012).

So next is a picture of the finished shelves now that they’re all set up … and I also included a bunch of “building the shelves” pics which I just thought were fun.

Oh, and just because a few people asked… a good chunk of the books in the top 4 rows are signed.

Then check below that for a HUGE LIST of every single book on the shelves!

Happy browsing!! 🙂

PS: Be sure to bookmark this page so that you can come back to it anytime you want!

— THE FINILIZED BOOKSHELVES —

I tend to organize my shelves mostly by size but also a bit by genre. I love seeing books match on the shelves. But I know we’re all different. So what do you guys do? Do you organize your books… Alphabetically? By favorites? By genre? Something else? Leave me a comment below and let me know!

I have 2 built in bookshelves at my house that I’ve filled with books that I love. I’m fixing to start purchasing my favorite ebooks as paperbacks. I can already see a whole shelf just for Kristen Ashley.

Gorgeous!! I buy ebooks and then I buy the paperback only if I absolutely love it, like 10 stars love it. like, I can’t stop thinking about it stars. I read 150 books last year and I only bought 15, soo….. 🙁

Absolutely love your bookshelf list ! I read mostly on my nook tablet. But only collect paperback/hardcovers for my favorites and those I know I will reread more than a few times. Such as BDB, Anita Blake series and dark-hunter series.

Jealous! I need a library room. The last couple years I have most books on my Kindle, but I still buy the hardback or paperback of series I love…JR Ward, L. Sands, S. Kenyon…quite a few others that you have also. I recently started buying (or in one case winning) signed copies…K. Ashley, Darynda Jones. I organize by series. It must have been so much fun getting them on the shelves!

I group mine by Author…
Since ebooks are cheaper, I buy them(unless the ebook is almost as expensive as the paperback, I’ll just buy the paperback)….and like you if I really love them, I buy them. People know I love to read so I get books as gifts too.

Those bookshelves are awesome-I love it! 🙂 I only buy my absolute favorites. I don’t really have a way to sort them. I just put the ones I know that I will re-read the most together. And the others I play around and see how they fit.

Wow! Your collection is amazing. It was just as interesting to see what was Not Read. I was a huge romance reader before I overdosed on Twilight for years, and then I read mostly paranormals (Fallen series, Hush, Hush series, Lux series, BDB series, etc.) before being introduced to indie New Adult as a fan of Jennifer L. Armentrout alter ego J. Lynn. Frigid was my first indie NA book and I started slowly following blogs that JLA had highlighted on a blog series. My much smaller bookcase is organized mostly by genre (paranormal being the majority). I’ve run out of room and I’m a renter so expanding isn’t possible. Now I prefer ebooks since I can have the pretty cover art and not need physical shelf space. I only have dead tree books that I’ve had autographed and usually were gifted to me or I won them.

Nice collection. I had to get rid of ALL my books last year because I needed to pay on some of my husbands bills but would love to rebuild my collection. Your lists will be a great start to go off of.
Now its the building of the bookshelves that I dread. lol

Waaaauw! That looks too pretty to be true 😀 How many books do you have on those shelves? I tried counting but I got confused a couple of times and thought I’d just ask instead 😉
I LOVE collecting paperbacks/hardbacks, and I have a collection of around 200 books. I sort them by author last name. I tried doing like you at one point, but I always end up having a shelf with the “ugly” books that I bought and didn’t like, and I felt kind of bad about it, so I decided to just do it by authors. However, it gets kinda difficult when I get new books, because then I have to move ALL of them, but whatever, I love sorting my books 😉

That’s fantastic…I’m envious of not only your bookcases but you collection…bowing down to you 🙂 I usually organize by author and within the author by series, like all my Anita Blakes are with the Merry Gentry books because they’re both by Laurell K Hamilton (which I had to stop reading for soooo many reasons but this post isn’t about that!!!,) etc. I just have those 9 cube bookcases from Target right now but I have rows of books tucked in behind rows of books so unless you know what’s there you miss half the collection. I need to get some bookcases like what you have! Thanks for sharing, look forward to browsing you whole collection!

What a fantastic way to share your favorites, I have bookmarked this entry…and I have to say, I have a little book shelf envy! All of my babies are packed in boxes right now. I’ve missed looking at and through them so I look forward to putting them in shelves again soon. Thank you for taking time to not only share your shelves, but to list them out…it was definitely hard to peruse your books with just a zoom on the picture! 🙂

This bookshelf collection is God! Worship! Lol but seriously this is amazing. I’ve recently started buying my favourite books/series that I’ve read on kindle so I can always have them. I have a bookshelf arch that goes around my bed (so I can say that I literally sleep with my books hehehe jks) nd I organise my books by height as well.

Your shelves are gorgeous! I tried organizing my books by genre or author but since my books are now more than my shelves are capable of holding them, they go by size. And now I literally don’t have an inch of space left in my shelf.

I love your bookshelves so much. I wish I had the space in my house to put some of them up. It seems like my hubby has more shelf space in his garage than what I do inside the house 🙂 so for now, my books live on my ipad…. which I secretly gush over very often. And also, living in South Africa, a lot of the books that I read are not available in paperback which is a bit of a bummer. Good For you though! I am very envious 🙂

Wow, I love your bookshelves and the tour of what’s sitting on them! Got any extra room to add more books or bookshelves? All of mine are on e-reader but I hope to start collecting my favorites on paperback (and getting them signed) at some point.

Thank you!! I do have room for one more in this room but on a separate wall so I’ll wait til the last possible second before I do that — I prefer them all together. All the books with the covers facing forward can technically fold in to allow more space so I should be able to add a lot more books to these if I rearrange them carefully. Here’s hoping! 😉

Oh My Gosh!!!! I’m in complete AWE and envy of your book shelves! I have quite the collection of e-books but I do buy them of my personal library if I read more than once. I also have a few signed books too. Fabulous job on your arrangement!!

I love this – awesome post and pictures. I really love that Outlander and Sword of Truth are both on your Top fav list. If you loved the sword of truth have you tried Robert Jordan’s Wheel of time series or Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy? Also some excellent epic fantasy novels. Keep doin’ what you do cuz you do it so well 😀 {hugs}

OMG THAT IS LIKE HEAVEN!!!!! HAHA 🙂
I do exactly the same thing you do–I collect only my favs in paperback–I call them 5 STAR paperbacks LOL (although some are 4.5)
And I like to get them signed if I do own them, so about 75% of mine are signed. My sister and I like to go to book fairs so that’s usually how we obtain the signatures.
However, I have yet to have Tarryn Fisher sign my Love Me With Lies series (which saddens me, hopefully she will be somewhere closer to me this year).
#ForeverJealous of your #Shelfie LOL

Ohhh I love your collection!! I really love how you’ve organized your book collection. I just realized like 70% of the books I’ve discovered are because of you! Thank you, Aestas! Your reviews are great!

I’m just curious, have you ever sat down and calculated how much you’ve spent buying books? 😛

Great bookshelves! I loved seeing all your goodies! We have a lot of books in common ( I love your reviews)and I am so wanty of the ones you have that I still need. 😀 I have a ton of books (paperback and hardback) and a ton of ebooks as well. I prefer my favorites in book form (preferably hardback). I also have a lot in ebook and book form. It’s an addiction, really…I can’t help myself. 😉

I collect both ebooks and paperbacks..
But i love collecting paperbacks more… so the favorites are added to my book shelf in paperback..
But i dont get many books in paperback down in our place and imported editions are too much to buy and take a very long time … so in that case ebooks are the only solution..

One question: for some reason I thought you were Canadian – I live in Toronto and cannot get many of these books in paperback even at our huge bookstores – the bestsellers, yes, but not the Beth Flynn or Aly Martinez or Love Me with Lies, KI Lynn, Debra Anastasia, Katherine Allred, etc. You could order them online but would pay a MINT for them. Ebooks are the only choice for some of these.

How did you get them? I can see some of them might be available at bookstores stateside… is that how you do it?

Incredible collection! I collect hardcovers, paperbacks and ebooks! I got rid of ALOT of paperbacks awhile back and I am so upset that I did! But I was in a book club and had so many hardcovers that I was needing the room. But my advice to ANY book lover out there, NEVER EVER get rid of any because you WILL regret it! You have a beautiful set up and I am jealous! I figure if I just continue hoarding book, I will eventually get my “library”!